Martynenko I. Psychological principals for communication activity development in senior preschool age children with system speech disorders

The study contains theoretical analysis of the modern theoretical and methodological approaches towards researches in the field of communication activity of the children with system speech disorders found in psychology. Generalisation of these approaches allowed the author to determine psychological mechanisms of the communication activity in the given category of children and develop its structural and functional model. The research methodological background has been defined, and the empiric study of the communication activity development in senior preschool age children with system speech disorders has been conducted. The research outcomes allowed to discover specific types of communication activity in children with system speech disorders (passive and stereotypical, operational-deficient, expressive and prognostic, structure-deficient). There also has been determined the inter- and intrapsychic preconditions for their development, communication difficulties at the different stages of communication activity implementation (related to content, operations and self-reflection). The study provides theoretical substantiation for the psychological grounds for development of communication activity in children with system speech disorders, which construct the background for elaboration and validation the psychocorrectional system for communication activity development in the given category of children. The three-component model of the proposed system includes the following stages of its implementation: information and activation; motivation and development; productive activity; the stage of verbal reproduction and creative transformation. For each stage the author provides detailed description of content and organisational work with teachers, parents and children.